Species of Indo-2Ialayan Lepidoptera. 339 



mnrgin, and small dark black luniiles, inwardly pale-edg'ed, 

 on the margin : hind wings smoky white, veins black ; a very 

 broad, even, black marginal band, occupying- one-tliird of the 

 wing-space ; cilia white. Underside much as in wetterensis. 



Expanse o£ wings 1^ inch, 



Uab. Tonglo, iSolomon Islands. 



Stictoptera cUspar, nov. 



cJ ? . Palpi, head, body, and fore wings dark chocolate- 

 brown, nearly black ; palpi grey in tiont : fore wing with the 

 base and outer portions sligiitly paler, markings very in- 

 distinct ; a transverse, somewhat oblique, and very indistinct 

 band, postmedial, parallel with the outer margin, and beyond 

 the reniforni, a paler band adjoining its outer side somewhat 

 reddish-tinged, with some obscure black spots in it, and black 

 luiiular maiks on the margin : iiind wings smoky white, the 

 veins black ; outer margin broadly and evenly black, occu- 

 pying more than one-third of the wing. Underside of die 

 usual pattern, but the fore wing has four rather prominent 

 white spots on the costa before the apex, and the hind wing a 

 prominent discal lunular bar which runs up to the costa. 



Expanse of wings 1^^^ inch. 



Hab. Mi. Kebea, lint. N. Guinea, GOOO'. 



I have four examples which 1 received as S. macrormnay 

 Snellen (fiom Celebes), but they do not correspond witli 

 Snellen's figure or description, or with Hampsou's description 

 in Piial. xi. p. 162. 



Stictoptera commutata^ nov. 



? . Fore wings much as in dispar, but there is a very 

 large round M-hite spot below the cell at the base of vein 3, 

 Avhich sligiitly enteis the cell and also slightly crosses vein 2 ; 

 at the base of the wing there are some dull ochreous scales 

 and dull ochreous hairs covering the upper sides of the thorax, 

 two spots behind, and some on the first two segments of the 

 abdomen : hind wings and underside as in dispar. 



Expanse of wings Ij^^ inch. 



Hab. Mf. Kebea, But. X, Guinea, 6000'. 



Two examples. 



Family EpiplemidsB. 

 JEpiplema rhacina, nov. 



S . Upperside of a uniform olive-brown colour : fore wing 

 .with the basal half of the costa irrorated with dark brown; a 



